Appraise Quote by Stanley Smith Stevens

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

— Anonymous

Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the…

— Boris Sidis

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

— James Hillman

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

— Samuel Alexander

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

— Abraham Maslow

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization…

— Henry C. Link

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

— Bertrand Russell

“In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by Mr. Herbert…

— Charles Darwin

It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were…

— Martin Seligman

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

— Thomas Szasz

“Psychology is the science of mental life”

— William James

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

— Daniel Kahneman